Scipion web development setup

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Scipion web requires you to have Scipion desktop running in the server. For that you will need to install Scipion. After this you should have Python, Django and all the modules required to run Scipion web.

Django scripts need write permission in $SCIPION_HOME

Matplotlib

Matplotlib also needs write permission (by default, to ~/.matplotlib)

Matplotlib also needs to deafult to Agg backend:

from scipion folder:

cp software/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.3.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc ~/.matplotlib/
vi ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc

Set --> backend      : agg

save it

Run the webserver

The simplest way to test your installation is to run Scipion in webserver mode:

./scipion webserver

After this you should have it running at http://localhost:8000/

(Note: the script starts the web server listening to 0.0.0.0, so it might be accessible from other computers too)

The recommended procedure is to setup a replica of the production environment on your development machine. Actually it takes little work, and you will be doing the test in the same environment as production.

To generate the database that Django will use (used when uploading a file), run

./scipion webserver syncdb

Other useful commands

To list all available Django commands,

./scipion webserver help

You can run any Django command if you type it after webserver: useful for collectstatic content.

./scipion webserver <Django command>

 — Main.JesusCuenca - 2013-07-31